ASD Teacher
Yeoman Park Academy, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG19 8PS11 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2025
Closing date
18 October 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
3 October 2024
Job details
Job role
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,745-£46,525 MPS/UPS
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Opportunity
This will require you to work and support learners with severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning disabilities working alongside staff in our PMLD classes.
The successful candidate will:
- be committed to Yeoman Park Academy's ethos of high expectations
- be an excellent teacher and a committed team player
- have a working knowledge of Autistic Spectrum Disorders and PMLD.
- have a proven track record of success
- have the resolve to make a real difference to the lives of children
- be able to communicate effectively with parents and other professional
What the school offers its staff
Our Employee Benefits
At Diverse Academies, you’ll find yourself in a vibrant, inclusive and supportive environment, where everyone can grow, progress and achieve a fulfilling career. We offer a fantastic range of rewards and benefits, challenging and interesting work, and opportunities to achieve your potential.
In return you will benefit from:
- Enrolment into the Teacher Pension Scheme
- Excellent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities covering technical, leadership and coaching skills via the trust’sDiverse Association for Professional Learning.
- Full support and induction.
- A strong and caring ethos among staff and students.
- Networking opportunities across Diverse Academies.
- Salary sacrifice opportunities such as car, cycle and technology schemes.
- Staff discounts and offers on gym membership, holidays, days out, cinema tickets, restaurants and top online shopping sites including instant voucher codes.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme – emotional, financial and legal support to both you and your family by a team of qualified professionals.
- Health and Wellbeing delivered through our occupational health provider, eyecare vouchers for a free eye test and contribution towards glasses for display screen equipment users.
Further details about the role
We are expanding and moving into a purpose-built school, with additional classes. We are looking to recruit additional teachers to work with our wonderful ASD learners in specialist wings that are designed to enable our learners. You will need to be a person who can work closely with our Behaviour & Health Lead, Therapy Teams and Parents. You will need to be able to advocate for our learners. It is essential that you have that special something that allows you to engage with and motivate our learners in creative and ingenious ways, be innovative and imaginative in providing meaningful learning opportunities both in and out of the classroom. We want you to make the ordinary extraordinary. Our older learners currently work towards Aim-Awards Accreditation which celebrates their different skills and abilities. Most classes are based around eight learners with two support staff depending on the needs of the learners. All classes follow timetables based around our bespoke curriculum which we have developed to meet the needs of our learners. We follow topics and extend our activities through our Friday Theme Days. All class teachers are part of a curriculum development team and have additional non-contact time as well-being is important to us.
For us it is about appointing the right person who has an interest in SEND and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. As such we are open to applications from primary or secondary ECTs or more experienced teachers. Being part of Diverse Academies with an expanding SEND portfolio allows us to support and influence the wider SEND community in our trust.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
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About Yeoman Park Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 19
- School size
- 108 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Yeoman Park Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- sfoster@yeomanpark-ac.org.uk
We are a specialist academy for children aged 3-19. Most learners are on the autistic spectrum and some have severe, complex, profound and multiple learning difficulties. We are based in Mansfield Woodhouse and currently have 113 pupils.
Our academy has a caring and supportive staff team who believe in every learner, and we work together to ensure our children achieve their very best.
Arranging a visit to Yeoman Park Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sfoster@yeomanpark-ac.org.uk.
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